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Re: echo bug?
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Randy Yates |
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Re: echo bug? |
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Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:15:35 -0500 |
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jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish@geocities.com> writes:
> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:33:22 -0500, Randy Yates wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if the problem is echo or the bash shell.
>>
>> echo -e "123\n 456"
>>
>> yields the proper spacing. However,
>>
>> text="123\n 456"
>> echo $text
>>
>> does not. Why not?
>
> try echo -e $text
Sorry - that's what I meant to type. That is to say, "echo -e $text$"
doesn't work.
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